{"id":7979,"date":"2015-08-31T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T12:44:54","slug":"contentment-the-key-to-curbing-mans-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=7979","title":{"rendered":"Contentment \u2013 The key to curbing man\u2019s desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/relaxing-640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"relaxing-640\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7980\" height=\"169\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/relaxing-640-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/relaxing-640-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/relaxing-640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) writes:<\/p>\n<p>It is a common observation and a fact proven through experience that man, regardless of how much wealth he may acquire, never remains satisfied and content with his lot. With the exception of a few blessed servants of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala, this is the general condition of man. It is for this reason we find that earnest exhortation and encouragement towards contentment is given in various places of the Holy Qur&rsquo;an and Ahaadith. This is essential so that man&rsquo;s insatiable appetite for wealth be curbed to some extent. (Fazaail-e-Sadaqaat [urdu], Part 2 &ndash;pg.369)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Shaikh Moulana Muhammad Zakariyya (rahmatullahi &lsquo;alaih) writes: It is a common observation and a fact proven through experience that man, regardless of how much wealth he may acquire, never remains satisfied and content with his lot. With the exception of a few blessed servants of Allah Ta&rsquo;ala, this is the general condition of man. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,14],"tags":[345,410],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-hadhrat-shaikh-rahmatullahi-alaihi","category-malfoozaat","tag-hazrat-shaikh","tag-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7982,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}